Tag: Douglas
Reading 06
We are continuing for a bit on the hypertext, but shifting from the writing side to some introductory material on its implications for narrative, and readers. While this reading is about hypertext, th... Read More
Multi Hyper Stuff
Two comments, this is a common trope in soap opera and so we don't need multilinear narrative for it (well, except soap opera is also a particular form of multi-sequential narrative), though more impo... Read More
Dead Trees
Nadine enjoyed the symposium, recognises that the essence of the literary is not paper (it is language), but also has an excellent outline of what we said about hypertext and cinema. ... Yet in the ... Read More
Endings Aren’t Really Real
(Yep, one of the defences of something like hypertext and other messy forms is that it is more 'realistic' than realism in fiction because, well, the real world is not just so cause and effect as a no... Read More
Please End It Nicely
Note though, we have lots of examples of stories with indeterminate endings, even in traditional books and films, and also from 'being swept into an author's world' it does not follow that there has t... Read More